Act No. 269

Public Acts of 2006

Approved by the Governor

July 7, 2006

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 7, 2006

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 7, 2006

STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2006

Introduced by Senators Kuipers, Brown, Patterson, Cropsey, Gilbert, Allen, Bishop, Jelinek, Birkholz, Toy, Sikkema, Hammerstrom, Garcia, Goschka, Van Woerkom, Johnson, Olshove, Leland, Schauer, Cherry and Thomas

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1075

AN ACT to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled "An act to prescribe the powers and duties of the department of management and budget; to define the authority and functions of its director and its organizational entities; to authorize the department to issue directives; to provide for the capital outlay program; to provide for the leasing, planning, constructing, maintaining, altering, renovating, demolishing, conveying of lands and facilities; to provide for centralized administrative services such as purchasing, payroll, record retention, data processing, and publishing and for access to certain services; to provide for a system of internal accounting and administrative control for certain principal departments; to provide for an internal auditor in certain principal departments; to provide for certain powers and duties of certain state officers and agencies; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the powers, duties, and laws relative to budgeting, accounting, and the regulating of appropriations; to provide for the implementation of certain constitutional provisions; to create funds and accounts; to make appropriations; to prescribe remedies and penalties; to rescind certain executive reorganization orders; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts," by amending section 213 (MCL 18.1213).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 213. (1) As used in this section:

(a) "Fund" means the motor transport revolving fund created in subsection (4).

(b) "Motor vehicle" means a passenger vehicle, van, minibus, bus, truck, tractor, or other motorized vehicle.

(2) The department may issue directives relative to all the following for motor vehicles except for those motor vehicles under the jurisdiction of the state transportation department:

(a) The purchasing, leasing, maintaining, operating, replacing, and disposing of motor vehicles for all state agencies.

(b) The using of state owned motor vehicles for official business.

(c) The establishing of conditions for use of privately owned motor vehicles on official business.

(d) The acquiring of vehicle registration plates.

(e) The maintaining of motor vehicle titles and insurance inventories.

(f) The assigning of motor vehicles, permanently or temporarily, to state agencies and to institutions of higher education.

(g) The establishing of rates to be charged for use of a motor vehicle. The rates shall be reviewed periodically and shall be sufficient to cover the costs of administration and of the acquisition, operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of motor vehicles.

(h) The displaying of distinctive vehicle registration plates and other external markings on the motor vehicles. The plates and markings shall clearly identify state ownership unless the motor vehicle is used by an elected official, or for an investigative use, or anonymity is essential to properly perform a necessary function of state government as determined by the director.

(3) The department shall establish motor vehicle repair centers and motor pools.

(4) The motor transport revolving fund is hereby created. The revenue received from rates charged pursuant to subsection (2)(g) and revenue which is received from any other source and designated to be credited to the motor transport revolving fund shall be credited to the motor transport revolving fund. The amounts in the fund are continuously appropriated only for administration and the acquisition, lease, operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of state owned motor vehicles and related capital outlay and equipment.

(5) Assets and liabilities of the motor transport revolving fund shall be considered assets and liabilities of the motor transport revolving fund created by this section.

(6) Not later than January 1, 2007, the director shall install the necessary fueling infrastructure or contract with a supplier to supply alternative fuels at all state motor transport facilities so that all state owned vehicles capable of utilizing alternative fuels are able to use them. As used in this subsection, "alternative fuel" means E85 fuel and biodiesel fuel blends.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor